[rrg] Fundamental objections to a host-based scalableroutingsolution

[slblake at petri-meat.com]

Quoting Tony Li <tony.li at tony.li>:

> Are we very sure that that model is what we're willing to live with moving
> forward?  Consider that some MPLS implementations, as part of the MPLS
> switching operation, grovel all the way up the label stack and find the IP
> header to hash its addresses so that they can correctly do ECMP.  Is that
> the kind of architecture that we consider clean and neat?

If only MPLS had left out the TTL (and EXP) fields, and just put in a  
word-offset to the IP header (or pseudowire header if you prefer).


Regards,

// Steve